Mike Vizard is a veteran IT journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering the technology industry, having previously served as Editor-in-Chief of both CRN and InfoWorld and as editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he oversaw titles including eWEEK, CIO Insight and Baseline. Over his career he has also edited or contributed to a wide range of enterprise technology publications, including IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, ComputerWorld, TMCNet and Digital Review, and he later led editorial for CTOEdge.com. His reporting and analysis span software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT channel strategy and, more recently, artificial intelligence and DevOps practices. A recognized voice in enterprise IT journalism, Vizard is known for tracking emerging technology trends as they move from early adoption into mainstream enterprise use. He now serves as Chief Content Officer for Techstrong Group, where he oversees editorial strategy across the full network — DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Digital CxO, Techstrong.ai, TechStrong.IT, Techstrong Semi and PlatformEngineering.com — in addition to writing and hosting content for Techstrong TV and the Techstrong Gang podcast.
BellSoft Optimizes Java for Cloud-Native Platform
BellSoft today is adding a BellSoft Alpaquita Cloud Native Platform to its portfolio that makes it possible to more efficiently run Java applications encapsulated in containers. As part of that effort, the ...
StormForge Extends Kubernetes Autoscaling Capability
StormForge today announced it has expanded its ability to vertically or horizontally scale Kubernetes pods automatically using machine learning algorithms. Rich Bentley, product marketing manager for StormForge, says the latest version of ...
D2iQ Extends Reach of Kubernetes Management Platform
D2iQ has updated its centralized Kubernetes cluster management platform to make it possible to configure and deploy applications per cluster in a multi-cluster environment. In addition, version 2.3 of the D2iQ Kubernetes ...
Docker, Inc. to Integrate Free SBOM Generation Tool
Docker, Inc. plans to embed the ability to dynamically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) using the Docker Build command that developers use to build Docker images from a Dockerfile. Company ...
DevOps World 2022: Cloud-Native Will Force CI/CD Issue
It may have taken longer than anyone initially expected, but the cloud-native era for building and deploying applications has finally arrived. Nearly every major application development initiative being launched today is based ...
Dell Allies With Red Hat to Build OpenShift Platforms
Dell Technologies and Red Hat this week announced a collaboration through which instances of the Kubernetes-based Red Hat OpenShift platform will be made available on systems from Dell. Caitlin Gordon, vice president ...
Weaveworks Adds Progressive Deployment for Kubernetes
Weaveworks this week delivered an update to its GitOps platform that enables application development and deployment teams to progressively deploy applications in a way that makes it simpler to recover in the ...
Sysdig Adds gVisor Support to Falco Container Security Platform
Sysdig is adding support for gVisor, an open source alternative to virtual machines that provides a lightweight sandbox for isolating Docker containers running on Kubernetes clusters, to the Falco security tool for ...
Sysdig Simplifies Container Security Remediation
Sysdig today announced it is adding a guided remediation tool along with a checklist to help organizations better prioritize their container remediation efforts. Alba Ferri, senior manager for product marketing at Sysdig, ...
Virtana Extends Capacity Management Platform to Containers
Virtana this week announced it is adding support for containers and Kubernetes clusters to its cloud management and monitoring platform that employs machine learning algorithms to control cloud costs. The first capability ...

